What are the aims or objectives of the Ph.D. program?
The principal aims and objectives of the Ph.D. program are to offer advanced training and promote research in traditional theoretical linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, universals and typology, etc.) and, especially, applications of linguistic theory to other areas, including, most importantly, second language acquisition and development (SLAD), which is an area of emphasis designated as a specific option for Ph.D. students, but also other areas of general linguistics in which theories of language are applied to questions with extra-linguistic implications, such as the connections between language and the mind and/or brain.
